◆Compère was the name King Henri II. gave the Constable de Montmorency.
[165] P. 316:
◆Octavius is translated Octavie by Brantôme. Cf. Suetonius, Caligula, XXXVI., and Octavius Augustus, LXIX.
◆Suetonius, Nero, XXXIV.
[166] P. 318:
◆Brantôme undoubtedly refers to Henri III. and to the Duke d’Alençon, his brother.
[167] P. 319:
◆Plutarch names this woman Aspasia and makes her a priestess of Diana. Cf. Artaxerxes-Mnemon, Chap. XXVI.
◆Collenuccio, liv. V., p. 208.
◆Artaxerxes I. (Longimanus), King of Persia for forty years, B. C. 465 to 425; he succeeded his father Xerxes, having put to death his brother Darius.